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  Royalty Paper Dolls, Queen Maude of Norway, Empress Eugenie, The Princesses Of Wales, Victoria and Albert, Royal ...
She was considered one of the great beauties of Europe and when she married Napoleon's nephew and became Queen of France, she was also the leader of fashion as well.
Theirs was an arranged marriage, but Albert was the love of Victoria's life and proved a positive influence in the early years of the queens reign.
The most familiar image is that of a stout elderly lady in widow's fl but this paper doll shows Victoria as a vital young woman in the early years of the reign.
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  Royal Family Order - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Royal Family Order is an order awarded by the sovereign of the United Kingdom to female members of the royal family.
The order consisted of a cameo portrait of Victoria and Albert, and was suspended from a white ribbon.
The Royal Family Order of Queen Elizabeth II depicts The Queen in evening dress wearing the ribbon and star of the Order of the Garter.
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 Victoria, Princess Royal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As a daughter of the sovereign, Victoria was automatically a British princess with the style Her Royal Highness, styled HRH The Princess Victoria (and in addition being heiress presumptive to the throne of the United Kingdom before the birth of her younger brother Prince Albert, later Edward VII on 9 November 1841).
Their sympathies created a rift among Queen Victoria's extended family, since Victoria's younger brother, the Prince of Wales, was married to Princess Alexandra of Denmark, the elder daughter of Christian IX of Denmark, who was also reigning duke of the disputed territories of Schleswig and Holstein.
Victoria died of cancer of the spine at Friedrichshof on the 5th of August 1901, less than seven months after the death of her mother, Queen Victoria.
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 History of the Monarchy > The Hanoverians > Victoria
Albert took an active interest in the arts, science, trade and industry; the project for which he is best remembered was the Great Exhibition of 1851, the profits from which helped to establish the South Kensington museums complex in London.
Victoria was deeply attached to her husband and she sank into depression after he died, aged 42, in 1861.
Victoria and her family travelled and were seen on an unprecedented scale, thanks to transport improvements and other technical changes such as the spread of newspapers and the invention of photography.
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 PBS : Queen Victoria : Low Graphics Site : The Changing Empire : Prince Albert
Victoria knew she was rather plain, with her chief and perhaps only asset her position as queen of the mightiest empire on the globe.
Although Albert's role at the start, despite desks in tandem, was only to wield the blotting paper for her signature, and he chafed at his being far less than the master in his own house, biology altered the marital and political balance.
Within weeks of the marriage, Victoria was pregnant, the first of nine times that her role diminished with not only the lassitude of pregnancy but with the social need to sequester herself when bulky with child.
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 Royal Insight > Focus > The Order of Merit
The Order is administered by the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, based at St. James's Palace.
The Order of Merit is one of the rarest of honours.
The first gathering of Members of the Order was held by The Queen on the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Order in 1977, when a Service of Thanksgiving was held in the Chapel Royal at St. James's Palace, followed by lunch at Buckingham Palace.
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 Orders, Decorations and Medals - Medals by Country - Medals of Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The family of a Victoria Cross holder who served alongside Laurence of Arabia and is buried in a West Wirral cemetery have paid tribute to him after a ceremony to lay a plaque on his grave.
A Victoria Cross hero of the Charge of the Light Brigade is to be honoured in the town of his birth.
Royal Marines from Devon are embarking on a pilgrimage to the graves of war heroes who were awarded the highest medal of gallantry.
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 Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Her father was HRH The Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI), the second eldest son of King George V and Queen Mary.
However, in 1997 She and other members of the Royal Family were perceived as cold and unfeeling When they were seen not to participate in the public outpouring of grief at the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
She is cousin of Albert II of Belgium, Harald V of Norway, Juan Carlos I of Spain and Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, as well as former kings Constantine II of Greece and Michael of Romania, and to the former Royal houses of Prussia/Germany and Russia.
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 thePeerage.com - Alice Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Princess of Albany and others
She was the daughter of Henry Maurice Prinz von Battenberg and Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Princess of the United Kingdom.
She married George V Frederick Ernest Albert Windsor, King of the United Kingdom, son of Edward VII Albert Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, King of the United Kingdom and Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Princess of Denmark, on 6 July 1893 in St.
She was the daughter of George V Frederick Ernest Albert Windsor, King of the United Kingdom and Mary Prinzessin von Teck.
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 Royalty.nu - British Royal History - Queen Victoria's Family and Jack the Ripper
Queen Victoria took a personal interest in these "dreadful murders of unfortunate women of a bad class," urging her ministers to take "some very decided action.
Farfetched as it seems, some experts believe the Ripper was none other than the queen's grandson Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (who was the son of future king Edward VII).
In his book Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution, author Stephen Knight claimed that a royal physician, Sir William Gull, and two accomplices committed the Ripper crimes in order to protect the royal family.
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 The Royal Academy of Arts : : Albert Irvin RA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Irvin’s work has developed from a time when he considered that in order to give the necessary gravitas to a painting it had to be dark and sombre, through to a growing realisation that high key colour can be crucial in the achievement of full expressive and communicative force.
Albert Irvin studied at Northampton School of Art from 1940 to 1941, before serving as a navigator in the RAF during World War II.
Paul Moorhouse, Tate curator and author of the book Albert Irvin: Life to Painting, wrote of him: 'even to those familiar with his work, seeing a new painting by Irvin can be an extraordinary experience akin to discovering a young, energetic artist in the first flush of ambition.
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 Queen Elizabeth II (1926- )
Sovereign of the Order of the National Hero, the Order of Jamaica, the Order of Merit and the Order of Distinction (Jamaica)
Knight with Collar, the Order of the House of Chakri (Thailand)
Royal Colonel, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland
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 Colonel - in - Cheif
Her Royal Highness Princess Patricia of Connaught (17 March 1886-12 January 1974) was the younger daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, the third son of Queen Victoria.
She was Lady of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India (CI), a member of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert (ODM) and a Dame of Justice of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
However, in the end, her choice of husband was not of the royal blood, but a commoner.
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 Ballater, Scotland in Victorian Times : A village is born
Ballater developed slowly at first and when Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837, Ballater was still a little village, 'far from the madding crowd'.
But after she and Prince Albert had bought nearby Balmoral Castle and the subsequent arrival of the railway in 1861, Ballater expanded rapidly.
When Queen Victoria died in 1901 it was a prosperous centre with a population of 1256, attracting visitors from all over Britain and even further afield.
www.royal-deeside.org.uk /Bahistory/victorian1.htm   (687 words)

  
 Wedding of King George V, by Lafayette
The dress was woven at the East London Silk Mills, the factory of Water and Sons, 9, Newgate Street, to whom the order was entrusted by Mdmes.
The white robe made for the nuptials of the Royal bride was not ready till last week, as the Spitalfields looms could not produce so elaborate a brocade at any rapid rate.
Orders, Decorations and Medals (British Orders) Burke's Peerage; (Danish Orders) R. Werlich, Orders and Decorations of All Nations, Washington, 1990; (Jubilee Medal) Howard N. Cole, Coronation and Royal Commemorative Medals 1887-1977, London, 1977.
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 Queen Victoria and British Empire Journal Topics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Queen Victoria was proclaimed “Empress of India” in 1876.
From the exhibts in the Victoria and Albert Museum do you think this is an appropriate description of the monarchy in the Victorian Age?
London: Victoria and Albert Museum in association with Mapin Publishing, 1992.
www.cofc.edu /~mccandla/victoriajourn.htm   (205 words)

  
 Yvonne's Royalty Home Page: Queen Victoria's Coronation Attendants
Queen Victoria noted in her Journal that the young women were "all dressed alike and beautifully in white satin and silver tissue with wreaths of silver corn-ears in front, and a small one of pink roses round the plait behind, and pink roses in the trimming of the dresses".
As Mistress of the Robes, the Duchess of Sutherland was responsible for the accounting of expenses incurred by the Queen for her clothing, including the robes required for the Coronation.
If Queen Victoria noticed any 'clumsiness', she did not mention it in her Journal, and seemed genuinely satisfied with her "young train-bearers [who] were always near me, and helped me whenever I wanted anything".
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 Royal Genealogies Part 1
The many years of her reign, often referred to as the Victorian age, witnessed the rise of middle class and were marked by a deeply conservative morality and intense nationalism.
NOTES: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a.k.a.: The Prince Consort of Queen Victoria; Christened: (Francis) Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel; He was an active and effective patron of the arts and sciences, organizing such enterprises as the epochal Great Exhibition of 1851 to stimulate the growth of British commerce, industry and national pride.
NOTES: Christened: Albert Edward; called, "The Peacemaker" Reign: 1901-1910; It is not always realized that Queen Victoria was the last sovereign of the House of Hanover and King Edward VII was the first of the House of Wettin or the House of Saxony.
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 The Monarchist: Happy Victoria Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Victoria Day is the Queen's official birthday in Canada.
We uphold the role of the pillars of social order; that is, Her Majesty the Queen, the Police, the Armed Forces, and the other agents of the civil government in its proper, limited sphere.
We uphold the institutions of civil society and moral order, such as the Church and the voluntary institutions which make up the Community, and deny the impulse of the collective.
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 King Edward VII (1841-1910)
Knight, the Order of the Rue Crown of the House of Saxony (Saxony)
Knight, the The House Order of Fidelity (Baden)
Knight with Collar, the Order of Carol I (Rumania)
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 London hotels near E16, Royal Victoria
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 Strange Science: Timeline
1668-Robert Hooke presents a lecture to the Royal Society claiming that earthquakes, not the biblical flood, have caused fossils to be found on mountaintops and buried in stone.
1715-Edmund Halley lectures the Royal Society that the age of the earth could be calculated by measuring the ocean's salinity since ocean salts result from sediments carried by rivers and streams.
Cephalopod expert Addison Verrill describes the blob as the remains of a giant octopus but, after examining a tissue sample, reverses his decision and describes it as a decomposing whale.
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 John Poyntz, 5th Earl Spencer - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A Knight of the Order of the Garter and Privy Counsellor, Spencer served as Lord Lieutenant and custos rotulorum for Northamptonshire from 1872-1908.
He was an honorary Colonel in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, and an Elder Brother of Trinity House.
In 1858 he married Charlotte Frances Frederica, a Lady of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert [d.
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 thePeerage.com - Lady Beatrix Jane Craven and others
As a result of her marriage, Lady Beatrix Jane Craven was styled as Countess Cadogan on 8 June 1873.
She was invested as a Lady of Grace, Order of St. John of Jerusalem (L.G.St.J.).
Albert Edward George Henry Cadogan, Viscount Chelsea b.
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 abbrevs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Recipient of the Cross of the Distinguished Order of the Solomon Islands.
KCH Member of the second class or, Knight Commander of the Royal Order of the Guelphs of Hanover.
KH Member of the third class or, Knight of the Royal Order of the Guelphs of Hanover.
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 CompUSA.com: A&E Home Video Victoria & Albert - AAE D70344D - DVD Movies » Drama » T-Z
But when the teenaged "Drina" ascended to the throne, she was a vibrant young woman of powerful emotions, which found their greatest outlet in her consuming love for her German-born husband, Prince Albert.
Victoria and Albert tells the true story of their remarkable union, a bond of passion, politics and power that helped restore dignity and respect to a monarchy long held in contempt.
Victoria Hamilton (Mansfield Park, King Lear) and Jonathan Firth (Middlemarch, And Ideal Husband) play the royal couple to perfection, and the exceptional supporting cast includes Diana Rigg, Jonathan Pryce, Sir Nigel Hawthorne and Sir Peter Ustinov.
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 Queen Victoria 1887 by Lafayette
Orders, Decorations and Medals: Sash and breast star of the Order of the Garter; the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert (1st class); The Royal Red Cross; The Imperial Order of the Crown of India.
Biog: Dictionary of National Biography; Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd ed., Burke's Royal Families of the World, London, 1977, Vol 1, p 306; Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.I., London, 1964.
Orders, Decorations, and Medals : (Order of the Garter), Leslie Field, The Queen's Jewels, London, 1987, p 182-3; (Orders of the Crown of India and The Royal Red Cross) Burke's Peerage; (Order of Victoria and Albert) Shirley Bury, Jewellery 1789-1910: The International Era, Vol I, London, 1991, p 222.
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 Famous People in Energy and Science
Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879.
In 1909 Marconi was awarded the Noble Prize in physics, which he shared with Karl F. Braun.
In 1914 King George gave Marconi an honorary title of Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victoria Order.
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 Tsui Design & Research Inc. | In The Media
It is the power of life itself differentiating and seething with diversity and interconnected order.
With this is the necessity for a rebirth of education that informs us to practice a nurturing restoration and protection of nature for our mutual benefit and survival.
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 Awards
Imperial Order of the Crown of India (1878 - 1947)
Note: A Knight Bachelor is not a member of an Order.
Within the different Orders, classes are ranked more or less in the following order, although not all the classes are to be found in each Order:
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